Category: International Development
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Leading with Purpose in the Age of Deep Learning: A Christian Perspective on International Development and AI
Summary: The landscape of international development is undergoing a profound transformation. Artificial intelligence isn’t just changing how we work; it is creating new ways to serve others. As Christian leaders in international development, we stand at a crucial intersection where we must understand what this technological revolution means and how we adapt to it. This…
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What Does Flying For Life Look Like?
Our tagline to summarise the mission of Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) is ‘Flying for Life’. What does this look like? It can be looked at in many ways, but here are three healthcare and medical related examples that bubbled up on the internet in the last week. Delivering Essential Medicines Delivering essential medicines to the…
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Marketing Claims that Sell, but Are Not Good Programmatically…
Years ago a fellow worker, who I respected highly, made a ‘marketing’ type of claim that his medical programme was ‘eradicating the diseases of poverty’. I loved my colleague’s work, yet we had different points of view about the validity of this statement. My view of validity was on the basis of two premises: The…
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Have you heard of Cabo Verde? It’s Malaria Free!
Here is some good news, and some bad news. First, the good news. I noticed when I was catching up this weekend on some reading, that several weeks ago Cabo Verde was certified as malaria free. Don’t know where Cabo Verde is? It is due west off of the coast of Africa from Senegal, The…
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Multi-dimensional Poverty Measurements
Probably the title of this blog does not excite most. However, in a vocational and missional way, it does excite me. One of the things that I have wrestled with for years is finding better ways to measure impact in international development. It is important and right to track service metrics… a surgery given, a…